[ScottinVA]

faced with expenses including bills for two sons in college and debts that mounted when he maintained a nicer lifestyle, he took up a nomadic existence.

Then, declare bankruptcy and start anew.

We're not knowing the full details of this story here. The sons may have to adjust their college situation and the debts can be restructured.

[logi_cal869]

You may have hit on something: The possible ‘entitlement mentality’ of his children.

‘I’ would not continue to go to college on my father’s dime while my father lived in a van. I suspect many here would parrot that.

There’s family, then there’s ‘family’. It’s supposed to be a 2-way street.

But again, we’re all armchair-diagnosing here on the basis of one reporter’s writing...